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The Damen Green Line Station in Chicago on Oct. 9, 2026, following a fatal stabbing of a CTA employee. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Fatal Green Line stabbing prompts call by State’s Attorney Burke for electronic monitoring reform

By Tess Kenny

October 13, 2026 at 5:38 p.m.

Last week’s fatal Green Line stabbing has renewed calls for electronic monitoring reform.

Officials take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking for the final phase of the Arboretum Villas at Plymouth Place Center for Senior Living on Oct. 7 in La Grange Park. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Plymouth Place breaks ground on new senior housing units in La Grange Park

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By Hank Beckman

October 13, 2026 at 11:21 a.m.

Officials broke ground on the final phase of the Arboretum Villas at Plymouth Place Center...

A volunteer walks past signs for migrants alerting them to free social services at the Migrant Center in Forest Park. (Jesse Wright/Pioneer Press)

Years later, migrants bused into Oak Park area still living in limbo

By Jesse Wright

October 13, 2026 at 5:05 a.m.

The border crisis landed in Chicago around Christmas in 2023. Shipped up from Texas, migrants...

What happened in Chicago suburban elections on Tuesday

By baiduhai

April 4, 2025 at 6:46 p.m.

Here are some election results from Aurora, Elgin, Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook, Gurnee, Homer Glen, Lake...

Incumbent Oak Park Village President Vicki Scaman addresses supporters April 1, at the Carleton Hotel ballroom in Oak Park accompanied by granddaughters Evie, 4, and Lila, 7, after preliminary results indicated she had beat challenger Ravi Parakkat by a large margin in the consolidated election. (Bob Skolnik/Pioneer Press)

Incumbent Vicki Scaman claims victory in contentious Oak Park village president race

By Bob Skolnik

April 1, 2025 at 10:19 p.m.

In the Oak Park village president race, incumbent Vicki Scaman claimed victory over challenger Ravi...

Kris Lonsway, organizational psychologist and founder of OptWell, has organized the Healthy Aging event at Helping Hand on April 10. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

Healthy Aging event offers resources, info to help people ‘define their future’

By Hank Beckman

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April 1, 2025 at 3:19 p.m.

La Grange area nonprofit OptWell will host free Healthy Aging presentation and resource fair in...

The 180 square-foot Gordon Park bandshell in La Grange is set to be replaced by a new 2,000 square foot bandshell with a permanent stage. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange OKs new band shell, performance area in Gordon Park

By Hank Beckman

April 1, 2025 at 1:59 p.m.

A new band shell will be going up at Gordon Park in La Grange after...

Kristina Joseph, of La Grange Park, points to the marquee of the La Grange Theatre's message of congratulations to the La Grange Social & Around Town group, five years after it was founded amid the pandemic as the La Grange Area Restaurant Take-out & Delivery Group. (Kristina Joseph)

La Grange group continues to promote positivity long past its pandemic origin

By Chuck Fieldman

April 1, 2025 at 11:56 a.m.

A Facebook group started to support La Grange area restaurants during COVID has grown to...

Pastor Ausrele Stoniene opened Glory House International in Lemont a year ago after spending four years refurbishing a century-old building. (Ausrele Stoniene)

After leaving ‘dream job,’ Burr Ridge pianist restores century-old church in Lemont

By Myrna Petlicki

April 1, 2025 at 12:21 p.m.

Lithuanian immigrant Ausrele Stoniene was a pianist for the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago, but left...

Families and friends flock to the ponds at Prospect Park in 2015 as the Clarendon Hills Park District held its annual Fishing Derby. A recently released list named Clarendon Hills among the best places to live in Illinois. (Jon Langham/Pioneer Press)

Clarendon Hills, Hinsdale land on ‘Best Places to Live’ list

By Chuck Fieldman

April 1, 2025 at 4:55 a.m.

Clarendon Hills and Hinsdale both landed in the top 3 of a recently released list...

Chris Balder is sworn in as new La Grange Park Fire Department captain by Village Clerk Meghan Kooi as his wife Meagan and daughters Abby and Emma look on. (Hank Beckman/Pioneer Press)

La Grange Park to add police officer, promotes three firefighters
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By Hank Beckman

March 31, 2025 at 4:53 p.m.

Village leaders in La Grange Park focused on public safety staffing at its last Village...

Plates are lined up in the kitchen in 2018 at Country House in Clarendon Hills, which is among 11 restaurants participating in the upcoming Restaurant Week promotion. (Chuck Fieldman/Pioneer Press)

Clarendon Hills plans village’s first ever Restaurant Week

By Chuck Fieldman

March 31, 2025 at 11:38 a.m.

The Chamber of Commerce promotion will feature 11 are restaurants in an effort to "drive...

Cardinal Blase Cupich holds up prayer beads from Pakistan given to him as a gift by Muslim Community Center board president Masood Bijapuri, second left, in Morton Grove during Chicago’s 26th annual muslim-catholic Iftar dinner on March 4, 2025. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

As Lent and Ramadan coincide this year, Christians and Muslims explain why they fast

By Richard Requena

March 26, 2025 at 9:57 a.m.

Lent always occurs at this time of year. Ramadan rotates around the calendar. This year,...